Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 11
Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow into new trees.
Who acts: Real squirrels, nuts · What happens: bury, forget, grow · To what, where: nuts, many, new trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Real squirrels, nuts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 squirrels | amod |
| 2 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bury | nsubj |
| 3 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bury | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forget | cc |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bury | conj |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forget | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 many | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 grow | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nuts | det |
| 13 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bury | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grow | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bury | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present | Real squirrels | nuts | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | Real squirrels not said here | many of squirrels | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the nuts | into new trees result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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